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Source
From: History of the Carlock Family, Carlock, 1929
Related
- Person:David Carlock (1)
Transcript
The first shipment of Palatines to America was in 1708 on the sailing ship Lyon. There were fifty-two who accompanied Lord Lovelace, Colonial Governor of New York. In the fall of 1709, three thousand more Palatines were assembled by Rev. Kockerthal at St. Catherine's, London, where they lived in a great tent camp under the supervision of the Board of Trade. Their names, occupation and religion were carefully recorded. In this group were Conrad Gerlach (Carlock), his wife, two sons and two daughters. (Later in New Jersey, we find three sons: Peter, George and Nickolas). Johann Christian Gerlach (Garlock-Carlock) in some manner reached America at about the same time. Tradition says that, being anxious to go with this great shipment of exiles, he secreted himself in a hogshead aboard ship until the ship made sea and that he came over with French Huguenots, landing at Ft. Lee, New Jersey. Both Conrad and Johann first settled at Livingston Manor on the Hudson in New York. We know that Conrad Carlock was born in 1669 because he gave his age in 1709 at forty-nine years. The birth year of Johann Christian Carlock (New York) was 1669 because in the records of St. Catherines in 1709 he gave his age as forty years. Conrad finally drifted down the Hudson to Fort Lee, now Bergen County, New Jersey, where he raised his family and Johann went to the Schoharie-Mohawk Valley, New York, where he was the leader and one of twenty-seven head men to get an Indian title to 12,700 acres of land known as the "Stone Arabia" patent. Johann also raised a family among them being Judge Elias Carlock and Theobald (also known as Theodore) Carlock. While it is true that many of these Palatines became dissatisfied with conditions in New York, it is known that Conrad after reaching New Jersey resided there the remainder of his natural life. Many of the New York, New Jersey and Ohio Carlocks are descended from Conrad Carlock.
Johann Christian Carlock (Garlock), the supposed brother of Conrad, never left the Mohawk Valley. His son Theobald with others builded canoes and paddled their way down the Susquehanna river into Pennsylvania and we find him finally in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in 1737. Johann Christian Garlock is the progenitor of most of the Carlocks and Garlocks of New York.
It is known from both history and tradition that because of the alleged ill treatment of the Palatines in New York, word was sent back to England and Holland that New York had treated them badly and for their relatives and friends not to come there but to seek passage on ships bound for Philadelphia. It is thought that David Carlock (the progenitor of the publisher's branch of the family), father of Hanchrist, Frederick, Catherine (Whitman), Conrad of Virginia and Caroline (Starnes), took this advice and came in via Philadelphia. The port records began in 1727 and he must have come in before this date as no record has been found in searching diligently through thirty thousand names of emigrants and hundreds of shipping records.
David Carlock, supposed brother of Johann Christian of New York and Conrad of New Jersey, emigrated with others across southern Pennsylvania into western Virginia. How long he remained in Pennsylvania is unknown but the writer believes between ten and twenty years. German, French, Dutch and Swiss refugees took up lands in Pennsylvania and Virginia and held back the redmen. The Governors of these states encouraged this to protect their people to the east. After a time---because of their thrift---their neighbors became jealous of them and made conditions so unpleasant for those who lived in Pennsylvania that they decided to answer the appeal of the Governor of Virginia for settlers in the Shenandoah Valley. It was the opportunity they had longed for and they took it.
The official records and history of the Virginia Carlocks show that Theobald Carlock, son of the New York Johann Christian had a son John, born in 1737 in the Shenandoah Valley. In 1749 Theobald is found with his uncle David Carlock in Augusta County. From the fact that nothing more is heard of him or his descendants, it is believed that either they were killed by Indians or the name ran out. David Carlock of Augusta County, Virginia, is the progenitor of practically all Carlocks in America, Canada and Mexico with the exception of those in New Jersey, New York, Indiana and a few in Ohio.
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